Hi!
On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
then again, I like Jim's idea of having NUMBER and STRING and none of
this fluffing about with 153 types of number.
I spoke to some Intel folks about this yesterday. Basically 1,2,4,8
are efficient. Almost everything really be treated as 4 though.
3bit is extremely inefficient and internally would be treated as 4bit
(so saving space in memory depending on alignment is all you will get).
BTW Date is 3 byte, we should look at that.
I am for keeping 1,2,4,8, but that is all. I am up in the air on
signed/unsigned.
Cheers,
-Brian
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